The electric guitar was vital in helping what I’ve achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
KEITH RICHARDSI am not doing it just for the money or for you. I am doing it for me.
More Keith Richards Quotes
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I’m all for a quiet life. I just didn’t get one.
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I’ve got nothing against daylight. I don’t live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.
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Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
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I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!
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I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, “I tried, I can’t do it” and give up and don’t try it again; they get too discouraged.
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Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.
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I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.
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I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he’s gonna do tomorrow and I’m just happy to wake up to see who’s hanging around. Mick’s rock and I’m roll.
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I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe – and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I don’t trust doctors. It’s not to say there ain’t some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn’t trust ’em at all.
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Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money.
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To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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